PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers ...
CAMERON – Following a 6-5 victory over Madonna on May 20 in the winner’s bracket of the W.Va. Class A Region I baseball tournament inside WVU’s Kendrick Family Ballpark in Morgantown, Cameron found itself in the driver’s seat of the double-elimination event. However, the ...
Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose ferocious, hard-hitting style of play angered opponents and sometimes overshadowed his prodigious skills and ability to deliver in the biggest games, has died after taking his own life, according to authorities. He was 60. The Palm Beach County Sherriff's Office said Thursday that deputies responded just after 3 a.m. to the scene of an apparent suicide at the family's furniture store in Lake Park, Florida. The office said the victim was believed to be Lemieux, who was found in a rear warehouse by one of his sons. The NHL Alumni ...
Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond. Baseball owners hadn't proposed ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch died last week from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star's death certificate. Busch had been experiencing symptoms of bacterial pneumonia for "days to weeks" before sepsis set in, according to the certificate obtained by The Associated Press in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The manner of death was listed as "natural." The death certificate also said Busch, who was 41, was cremated in Mooresville, North Carolina, following ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Teagan Kavan pitched a complete-game four-hitter, Kaiah Altmeyer and Kayden Henry each belted a home run, and defending-champion Texas defeated Mississippi State 4-0 on Friday to stay alive at the Women's College World Series. Kavan (26-6), who was the losing pitcher in the Longhorns' 6-3 loss to Tennessee on Thursday, returned to the form that led Texas to the WCWS title in 2025. On Friday, she threw only 78 pitches with two strikeouts and no walks. Second-seeded Texas (48-12) advances to another elimination game on Sunday against the loser between Alabama and ...
